Oh yes indeed.
Posted on 08/05/2017 5:18:05 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
A small group of nuns and priests met the woman in the chapel of a house one June evening. Though it was warm outside, a palpable chill settled over the room. As the priests began to pray, the woman slipped into a trance -- and then snapped to life. She spoke in multiple voices: One was deep, guttural and masculine; another was high-pitched; a third spouted only Latin. When someone secretly sprinkled ordinary water on her, she didn't react. But when holy water was used, she screamed in pain.
"Leave her alone, you f***ing priests," the guttural voice shouted. "Stop, you whores. ... You'll be sorry." You've probably seen this before: a soul corrupted by Satan, a priest waving a crucifix at a snarling woman. Movies and books have mimicked exorcisms so often, they've become clichés.
The 1973 film "The Exorcist" shaped how many see demonic possession.
But this was an actual exorcism -- and included a character not normally seen in the traditional drive-out-the-devil script.
Dr. Richard Gallagher is an Ivy League-educated, board-certified psychiatrist who teaches at Columbia University and New York Medical College. He was part of the team that tried to help the woman.
Fighting Satan's minions wasn't part of Gallagher's career plan while he was studying medicine at Yale. He knew about biblical accounts of demonic possession but thought they were an ancient culture's attempt to grapple with mental disorders like epilepsy. He proudly calls himself a "man of science."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Though there may be a connection, in the grand scheme of things.
Much better than having to discuss 1 million new jobs in 6 months!
Oh yes indeed.
She would have been keeled over dead at this point.
Contemporary Catholicism doesn’t see faith and science as contradictory. ...”
Neither did pretty contemporary Catholicism, so, how “bout that...
PRE contemporary! Shite!Damn this phone which fixes words I don’t want fixed and leaves unmolested words that make no damn sense!
It must be demon possessed. Better call the exorcist.
What would we do without exorcists?
"Contemporary Catholicism doesn't see faith and science as contradictory. Its leaders insist that possession, miracles and angels exist. But global warming is real, so is evolution, and miracles must be documented with scientific rigor."
So Tim Kaine would be president? Great.
I hear you, FRiend, about the phone. Recently, in a text discussion my “I will delete thread” was changed by the gremlins to “I will delete Fred”. I certainly hope nobody named Fred was murdered in my area recently.
About your intended comment: +1
Did not click on the full article, but I am thinking they just had to add the global warming poppycock in order to balance an article that is perhaps giving a favorable view to Catholicism.
It was over for Hillary on the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks when she had to be helped into the car. That day really was the sealing of Hillary’s defeat.
or Imran Awan’s family and the democrat involvement with them!
C.S. Lewis in “The Screwtape Letters” notes instruction from a senior demon training his nephew:
“What is the most important thing we can teach people?”
“That we don’t exist.”
You may benefit from C.S. Lewis “The Screwtape Letters”.
A quick read and well worth the time.
There is no devil.
Exorcists do need familiarity with languages.
The Hebrew language has no vowels, so it takes an expert to tell if it is genuine based on pronunciation.
Aramaic language is a Middle Eastern language or group of languages belonging to the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic language family. More specifically, it is part of the Northwest Semitic group, which also includes the Canaanite languages such as Hebrew and Phoenician.
The Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia (the first Christian nation) is Amharic.
Greek was the *lingua franca*, for a very long time, spanning 34 centuries of written records.
Latin is actually two languages: “Classical” Latin as spoken during the Roman Empire, and “Clerical” Latin, a simplified form used by the Catholic church, and spoken with Italian pronunciations.
Then there are the other Romance languages, in particular the varieties of French, the three kinds of Slavic languages, the Old Norse and Germanic, Spanish and Portugeuse languages, and the various forms of English.
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